Bialowieza Forest is a large forest complex located on the border between Poland and Belarus. It includes protected forest ecosystems which exemplify the Central European mixed forests terrestrial ecoregion, and a range of associated non-forest habitats, including wet meadows, river valleys and other wetlands. Thanks to several ages of protection the Forest had survived in its natural state to this day. The Bialowieza National Park, Poland, was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1979 and extended to include Belovezhskaya Pushcha, Belarus, in 1992. A large extension of the property in 2014 results in a property of 141,885 ha with a buffer zone of 166,708 ha.
Bialowieza Forest has exceptionally conservation significance due to the scale of its old growth forests, which include extensive undisturbed areas where natural processes are on-going. A consequence is the richness in dead wood, standing and on the ground, and consequently a high diversity of fungi and saproxylic invertebrates. The property protects a diverse and rich wildlife of which 59 mammal species, over 250 bird, 13 amphibian, 7 reptile and over 12,000 invertebrate species. The iconic symbol of the property is the European Bison: approximately 900 individuals in the whole property which make almost 25% of the total world’s population and over 30% of free-living animals.

"The forest is the perfect environment that reminds us of the often-forgotten condition of our being-in-the-world, namely that we are not responsible for the habitability of this world—but that it is the biosphere, as a living architecture older than us, that constitutes our giving environment."
- Baptiste Morizot

S'enforester was born from the encounter of a photographer, a philosopher, and a forest. Nourished by the Białowieża Forest, Andrea Olga Mantovani and Baptiste Morizot joined their perspectives to weave the myth of the original forest.